Churn-power



2 SheetsSheet 1.. J. W; GASTEEL.

GHURN POWER.

(No Model.)

Patented Feb. 22, 1887 With ems e5,

2 Sheets-sheet 2.

(No Model.)

' J." W. OAS-FEEL;

GHURN POWER.

No. 358,334. v Patented Peb. 22, 1887.

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JAMES W. OASTEEL, OF CEDARVILLE, KANSAS.

CHURN- POWER.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 358,334, dated February 22, 1887.

Application filed November 4,1886. Serial No. 217,965.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES W.

citizen of the United States, residing at Cedarville, in the county of Smith and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improve.

ments in Ghurn-Po'wers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to churn powers adapted to operate churns in which the dasher has a reciprocatory motion and will form a stand or support for the churn-body. The device is simple and compact in arrangement, durable, and not liable to get out of repair.

The improvement consists in the novel arrangement of the dasher connecting and operating parts, and particularlyin the peculiar construction of the clamp for securing the dasher at any point to the vertically-reciproeating rod in such manner that the clamp will be secured to the dasher and to said verticallyreciprocating rod at one and the same operation, thus reducing the number of parts, lessening its cost, and greatly simplifying its construction.

Figure l is aperspeciive view of the device; Fig. 2, a sectional side elevation of the dasher connecting and operating parts; Fig. 3, a plan view of the dasher-connecting clamp, and

view of said clamp.

The frame of the device comprises the four corner -posts A, the base B, and the upper side bars, 0, which unite the ends of the cornerposts. Two of the corner-posts are spanned near their upper ends by two pairs of braces, D and E, which are located at a distance apart. The braces of each site sides of the posts, respectively, as shown, and form bearings for the shafts F and G. The shaft F is journaled in the upper braces. D, and is provided on its outer portion with the gear-wheel H and the crank it. The shaft G is mounted in bearings in the lower braces, and has the pinion I keyed on its outer end and the crank or eccentric tkeyed on its inner end. The pinion I meshes with the gearwheel H, and receives motion therefrom. The vertically-reciprocating rod J is guided in its movements by the brackets K and L, secured at different levels to that side of the frame upon which the braces and gearing are located. The pitman M connects the crank or CASTEEL, a

pair are located on oppol eccentric c with said reciprocating rod. Mo

shalt N, which is held thereto by the clamp 0, made in two parts, P and P, which are separable, and preferably hinged together at one end. The adjacent faces of the meeting parts are notched to form an opening when the parts are brought together for the passage of the rod J. That side of the clamp opposite the hinged side is held together by the clampl bolt Q, passing through coincident l the ends of the parts P and P.

of the clamp-bolt is hooked or The front end bent, and exopenings inv tends across a notch,p, in the outer end of j the part P of the clamp, and the inner end is i threaded and receives the thumb-screw g.

The end of thepartPof the clamp has agroove, s, at right angles to the notch 19, for the reception of the hooked end of the clamp-bolt, and preventing the same from accidental displacement. By tightening up the thumbscrew q the dasher-shaft N and reciprocatory l rod J will be bound together, and by slackening up or unscrewing the same the clamp can be adjusted to any position on said rod J, and the dasher-shaft N can be adjusted to any required point, and said positions of the rod, l shaft, and clamp can be maintained by tighteuing the thumb-screw previously slackened. The clashershaft can be readily detached by unscrewing the thumbscrew q sufficiently to 1 allow the hook end of the clamp-bolt to be turned over, so as to disengage its hooked end I from said shaft, as will be readily understood 1 from the dotted lines in Fig. 4.

One ofthe upper side bars, 0, is hinged, to I allow it to be turned up out of the way to permit access to the dasher-conneoting clamp.

I claim- 1. The parts composing the churn-power, consisting of the upper shaft, its gear and crank, the lower shaft, its pinion and crank, the rod J, the pitrnan M, the dashershaft N, and the clamp 0, adapted to be secured to the rods J N by the hooked screw a, the said op erating parts being mounted upon the frame, and all combined substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

2. The herein shown and described clamp for connecting the churn-dasher-operating parts, consisting of two parts, P P, hinged together at one end and having their meeting In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my faces notched to form an opening, the clamphand in the presence of three subscribing Wit- [0 bolt Q, passed through coincident openings in nesses.

the opposite ends of the parts and having its J. \V. CASTEEL. outer end hooked and its inner end threaded, \Vitnesses:

and the thumb-screw q,p1aced upon said inner ALEXR. BARRON,

threaded end, combined with the rods J M N, W. H. BRYNING,

as shown and described. L. A. GOLDEN. 

